How to Build a Soundproof Music Recording Studio

The Aim The aim of the studio was to be able to both rehearse and eventually record a five-piece rock band inside the space. Thus it needed ...

After a significant amount of time spent researching soundproofing solutions, one principle that kept coming up was the idea of a room withi...

 After I had decided to use stud wall, it became clear that there would be a large amount of timber involved in the construction. Thus, it b...

 As I only had limited basic tools available for the build, the first step was to purchase the required equipment. Although this was done in...

As part of the build, significant effort was put into reinforcing the existing building shell. Because of my plan to add a false roof to the...

 The next step in soundproofing the garage was to address one of the major weaknesses - the window. As any soundproofing article will tell y...

 Checking the load capacity of the existing rafters The main worry I had about the studio build as a whole was on how to ensure that the exi...

 Parts of this article are fairly specific to my exact building, but if you have a similar blockwork construction, or similar rafter arrange...

 Now we come to the first stage of actually constructing the inner room. All the steps so far have been alterations to the existing garage s...

 From fairly early on in the project, I knew that having sufficient power to the studio was going to be a major requirement. Given how much ...

 One of the key aspects of my studio plan was trying to achieve a room that was as airtight as possible, in order to maximise the acoustic i...

 Now that I've discussed the theory behind the design and the locations of the two baffle boxes, onto how I actually built them. In this...

 As I mentioned previously, the only piece of "Building" work that I had no intention of doing myself was the cutting down of part...

 Now that the steelwork had been installed, I was finally free to begin the extra roof-work that would be needed to support the outer room p...

 Although the majority of the roof-work from which I would hang the external room plasterboard ceiling was now complete, there were still so...

 Now we come to perhaps the most time-consuming task of the project: installing the acoustic plasterboard. Overall, (with lots of help from ...

 After I had installed the two plasterboard skins of the outer room ceiling, I next had to seal the gaps between the individual boards, ensu...

 Although I have talked before about the baffle boxes, and how they prevent noise from coming through the ventilation holes, I haven't y...

 At this point of the build, the outer room was basically complete. I had finished hanging the plasterboard that formed the outer room ceili...

In order to achieve maximum acoustic isolation, I had decided to try and decouple the inner room of the studio as far as possible from the o...